When you bring politics into this you do nothing but cause a problem for many. Also the State of Texas owns the Battleship Texas these days not the Federal Government. So regardless if the Federal Government were to spend 10 Trillion Dollars to paint a picture of Mickey Mouse on the Moon that could be seen clearly on Earth it would have ZERO effect on the maintenance of the Texas. The State is totally in control of her she was sold by the Navy to the State in 1948. And they are funding work on her. They have structural work going on inside her to make her strong enough to support her own weight when they build her dry berth. Building the dry berth before shoring her up and letting her collapse under her own weight would be foolish.
There is a Facebook group called Save the Battleship Texas that has a lot of info about the ongoing preservation work aboard the ship

I'm sure I am not alone with buying a permanent camo for a ship on a whim when you first unlock a ship then looking back thinking "I wasted my freaking money on that I wish I hadn't got it" My idea is allow us to sell our permanent camo through the Inventory system for Silver. Add a nice are you sure you wish to to sell this its non refundable if you do sorta prompt and give us say half the doubloon value in silver. Wargaming made its money we don't feel as bad about having bought something we ended up not liking or not using. Seems like it would make enough people happy to be worth the relatively small amount of effort since the camo already shows up in the inventory its just not able to be sold.